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Take a turn on the Korean War Memorial Highway and make your way east, past the newly opened Nanuet Shops. Past the towering stone horse statues and the shivering sweatshirt clad men jogging towards the gym situated at its peak. Drive further and see the bright red letters of the Palisades mall grow smaller and smaller in your car’s rear view mirror. Eventually as you get closer to and then further again to the roar of the NY Thruway you’ll find yourself in a part of Rockland County no longer decorated with franchises or the typical strip malls that dominate the landscape of any suburb north of the city.

In 1884, Nyack, NY was a bustling river community and the commercial heart of Rockland County. This sketch is from a widely circulated map made by L. R. Burleigh. The bird’s-eye view rendering depicts a jumble of homes, businesses and churches. When you take a closer look at this historical document you’ll discover that our 19th century republic on the Hudson was not as indivisible as the promise made in our pledge of allegiance.

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From father to son, from mother to daughter, from generation to generation, from dawn to dusk, from East to West…there were storytellers. The ancient art of storytelling is the up-close and personal transmission of ideas, traditions, dreams, humor, wisdom, and love. Every culture has its stories, and it is the storytellers who pass them from one generation to another.

The 19th annual Rockland County Storytelling Festival celebrates the art and the age old tradition of storytelling on Sun Nov 16 from 1:30-4:30p at the Haverstraw King’s Daughters Public Library in Garnerville. Hear professional storytellers Elise Krakower, Julie Pasqual, Pamela Schembri, and Chuck Stead joined by high school students who will also tell their stories. There will also be storycrafts for children–but storytelling is not just for kids.

Once a year, Piermont Pier becomes a field station, and local students, a team of environmental investigators. Last week scientists at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory led students through a series of field experiments designed to teach them more about the Hudson River.

The scheduled activities for Nyack’s annual Halloween Parade on Sat at 5:30p suggests it must be the Year of The Zombie.

Nyack’s first-ever Zombie Apocalypse crawl, led by local author Linda Zimmerman, will kick off right before the parade begins. All zombies should meet in Memorial Park in Nyack at 4:30p. Just to prove that zombies cannot live on brains alone, participants are encouraged to bring canned nonperishable food goods as a donation to People to People before crawling at 5p just prior to the full parade at 5:30p. Wanna walk like a zombie in full public view? Visit HvZombie.com for more details.

The 27th annual Nyack Halloween Parade is the largest parade of its kind outside New York City. Organized by the Nyack Chamber of commerce, over 25,000 spectators are expected to line the streets of Main and Broadway.

Nyack Oct 13 — Summer’s gone, September’s a memory and in a few days it will be Halloween. While you were traveling abroad, lounging on the beach, hob-nobing in the Hamptons or sleeping in during your staycation, you might have missed some good stuff that happened in town. Not to worry: NyackNewsAndViews’ summer interns have got you covered.

Last Spring we put out the call for student interns. From May-August they’ve been hard at work writing features and creating video content about our community. Here’s a review of their work over the last few months in case you’ve missed it.

“As the new bridge connecting Westchester to Rockland County emerges from under the Hudson, we know that the current skyline will soon become a memory,” writes Ruthmarie Hicks in her blog, FotosOnTheFly.biz. And for those of you who already think they spend waaaay too much time on the bridge, Hicks has collapsed two hours of action around the bridge into a sparse 14 secs with time-lapse photography.

“The transition from day into night is one of the most compelling ways to use time-lapse photography. As the sun goes down and we respond by cranking up our electrical grid, the transformation is quite dramatic,” she writes.

Nyack, May 14 — President Barack Obama’s scheduled address today, posing in front of the Tappan Zee Bridge construction site, is being interpreted differently by different groups. But the local gridlock caused by the POTUS visit is only a metaphor for what goes in the nation’s capital every day.